Algorithm for recipient vessel selection in free tissue transfer to the lower extremity

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1937-1948

  Park, Sanghoon ^a,b   Han, Sang Hoon ^a   Lee, Taik Jong ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Asan Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; FOOT INJURIES; HUMANS; LEG; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0345535840     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199906000-00019     Document Type: Article

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